Dušan Lazarević CV, December 2019
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Curriculum Vitae DUŠAN LAZAREVIĆ www.dusanlazarevic.com EDUCATION The London Film School (Graduated with Distinction in Direction) University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Science (Department of Journalism and International Politics) AS DIRECTOR BESA Created by Tony Jordan (Season 1, 12 episodes, mts TV & TV PRVA) Currently in worldwide sales and distribution. Directed the whole first season. THE OUTPOST (Series 2, Episodes 9 & 10, Syfy & The CW) FREE REIN (Series 2, Episodes 5-10, Netflix) SILENT WITNESS (Series 17, Episodes 9 & 10, BBC1) DEATH IN PARADISE (Series 3, Episodes 3 & 4, BBC1) VERA - Young Gods, written by Gaby Chiappe (Series 3, Episode 3, ITV) MISFITS (final two episodes (7-8) for series 4 of the BAFTA winning drama, produced by Clerkenwell Films) SATISFACTION (pilot for 8x1hr drama series for Company Pictures and Eatme Productions, for BBC) ŽENE SA DEDINJA (WOMEN FROM UPTOWN) (8x1hr drama, season 1, for Emotion Production, Serbia) Directed the pilot and the whole first season. GRANGE HILL (20x1/2hr drama series, produced by Mersey TV for BBC) Directed 2 episodes. HOLLYOAKS (teen drama series produced by Mersey TV for Channel 4) Directed 41 episodes. LIVING WITH LIONEL (10X2min series animation b/w+colour) Created, produced and directed an animated series for Fox Kids television. Premiered on air in July 2001. HOW TO KILL (54min - 16mm - colour) Adaptation of a prize-winning play by Angus Reid, inspired by the life and writing of Second World War poet Keith Douglas. Awarded second prize at the New York Television Festival. THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR (54min 16mm colour) A LFS (United Kingdom) and FRZ (Yugoslavia) co-production. AMPAS, Los Angeles (Student Oscar entry) Edinburgh Film Festival THERE ARE GUEST HOUSES IN THE SAHARA (20min 35mm colour) Short film based on the fictionalised account of a case study The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Dr. Oliver Sacks. SECOND SKIN (10min 16mm colour) Documentary on tattooing. Screened on BBC2. WRITING/DEVELOPMENT TAKE ME HOME A feature film: Martha, a mediator in of children adoption, and orphan Marko, form a tumultuous emotional relationship and flee from the general cruelty caused by the institutionalised inhumanity of the adoption process. (Attached as director, currently in development, with Film Center Serbia funding.) ELVIRA A feature film for children: 12-year old Elvira, champion gamer and hacker with a police record is kidnapped, then becomes an eco-warrior on a dangerous and mystical mission. THE FABULATOR (plus 2) A six-part triptych: a futuristic, an occult and a time-travel story set in a modern urban environment. BLACK WIND (CRN VETAR) (8x50min) A British Interpol officer gets tangled in a murder case involving political corruption, set against a backdrop of witchcraft in the time-forgotten settlements in eastern Serbia. CLAY (6x60min) A young family's eight-year-old daughter is brutally murdered. A dark, multi-layered series inspired loosely on the Lesley Molseed case of the 70s, told from different timeframes and contradictory perspectives. UNDERGROUND (8x60min) Drama series about London, Britishness and surviving in a metropolis, but from the perspective of eight immigrants. 13 SUNDAY LUNCHES (13x50min) Drama series, set in Belgrade, Serbia. THE ANGEL OF THE NORTH Treatment and script in development for a 90 minute drama pilot set in London and Edinburgh. THE BUBBLE (50x25min live action) Created the original concept with KUDOS Productions for a teenage mystery soap. THE CHILDREN OF THE CIRQUE DU SOLEIL (13x22min live action/animation) wrote the concept, setting, characters and storylines; lead a team of writers and artists in creating an animated series for GRANADA Animation. OTHER HAND ON THE SHOULDER (45min - 16mm - b/w) Acted (male lead) in a film produced by The Arts Council of England and the British Screen, broadcast on Channel 4. December 2019.